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Eleven students from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) have been named semifinalists in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search. The semifinalists are all students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The students, with their project names in italics, are:

·Yuqing Zhang, Early-Warning Signals for Population Collapses in Metapopulations.

The 300 semifinalists were chosen from among 1,839 entrants and will receive matching awards of $1,000 along with their school. Forty finalists will be announced on January 25; finalists will attend the weeklong Intel Science Institute in Washington, D.C., in March and will compete for college scholarships. Finalists will also compete for a grand prize of $100,000.

This is the 71st year of the Science Talent Search, which Intel has sponsored since 1998, providing $1.25 million in awards and scholarships to contestants. More information about the competition can be found at www.societyforscience.org/sts/.

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Note: For more information, contact the FCPS Department of Communications and Community Outreach at 571-423-1200.